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(No Model.) C. ZIES.

- MEAT GUTTER. l

No. 335,730. Patente-d Feb. 9,-.-"18861-` IWT/Emil? Wmaggg IJNITED Smarts Param? Dimes.

.CHARLES ZIES, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.335,730, dated February 9, 1886.

(No model.)

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs Zins, of Bal timore city, in the State of Maryland, have nvented cert-ain new and useful Improvements in MeatCutt-ers, of which the following` is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of an ordinary meat-cutter with my device attached to the cross-beam thereof. Fig. 2 is atop plan view of my adjustable device, and Fig. 3 a perspective view of the same.

Like letters of reference indicate similar parts in all the figures.

My invention relates to means for adjusting the several setsor series of scrapers and knives in a meat-cutter or machine for cutting sausage and pudding meat; and it consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts, as will be more fully here inafter described.

rlhe invention consists, solely, of the adj usting device attached to the meatcutter in or dinary use, whereby the scrapers and knives are caused to move laterally, and as there are two several precisely similar devices-one on the right hand and the other on the left of the upper cross-beam-a description of the one will answer for the other.

rl`he meat-cutter shown is the ordinary cutter in everyday use, and hence a description thereof for the purposes of this specification is entirely unnecessary, and I now describe my invention, which `is so simple of construction that a lengthy description of it would be verbose.

Referring tothe drawings by letter, A is the table of an ordinary meat-cutter; B, the upright shaft, around which the table revolves; C, the side pieces or rims; D, thelateral crossbeam.

I now come to the description of my invention-viz., the device for adjusting the scrapers, which hang down in between the blades, as well as the blades themselves.

The blades are mounted rigidly on a cylinder, which is also mounted rigidly upon the driving-shaft, which. has one of its bearings loosely but neatlyin a bracket depending from beam D, the shaft having upon this end a collar, (not showm) and the other end passing through a hole in the vertical portion of said beam D. The collar on the inner endl of the shaft permits the shaft to be adjusted laterally by pressure either from the comb or band, while the collar (not shown) on the shaft outside of the vertical portion of the beam holds the shaft in position after being adjusted; or the cylinder on which the blades are mounted can be splined upon the shaft and adapted to be moved by the side pressure of the comb, which is adjusted laterally by means of the thumbscrews h h at the right and left hand of the frame g by simply unscrewing the one and screwing up the other.

In Fig. 2, g is a skeleton frame rigidly bolted to cross-beam D. g' is an inner lateral bar rigidly bolted to the inside of the skeleton frame g by means of bolts and nuts g". Between the skeleton frame g and the inner lateral bar, g', is a sheet-rnetal plate, g2, having the Scrapers m, Fig. 1, atits lower portion,de pending between the circular blades n, Fig. l. g3 is a pin running through the upper part of the metal plate y?, its ends resting on inner lateral bar, g', and the outside of skeleton frame g, respectively, serving as a support to the plate g2. g5 g5 are thumb-screws extending through the front of the frameg until they bear hard up against the plate g2, in order to steady the same when in its normal position. h h are another set of thumb-screws located, respectively, at each end of the frame g, and extending entirely through the same and into the top part of the plate g', for purposes explained hereinafter in the operation of the device, with which I will now proceed.

Vhen it is desired to adjust the blades n, Fig. 1, lfrom left tolright, (a reverse operation being only necessary to shift them in the opposite directiom) it will only be necessary to unscrew the thumb-screw h at the right-hand side, simultaneously screwing up the thumbscrew hat the left-hand side of the frame g, (havingof course first unloosened the two several thumbscrews g5 g2) which operation of itself will draw the metal plate g2, with its Scrapers m, Fig. l, as far from left to right as the operator may desire. Simultaneously with this operation, and purposely so, are the blades n, Fig. l, adjusted from left to right, from the IOO [fact that the pressure of the Scrapers m, Fig. In a meat-cutter, the combinationof frame l, against the eircularblades n, Fig. 1, issuffig, bar g', cross-beam D, Scrapers m, knives n, cient to move them just as far, or nearly so, plate g2, having the pins g3, and the screws g5 I5 in thesame direction as the Scrapers are moved, and h, all arranged as herein shown and de- 5 for the reason that the journal to which the scribed, substantially in the manner as and blades n, Fig. 1, are rigidly attached fits loosefor the purposes Set forth. 1y but neatly in its respective bearings to admit of that movement of the blades, having CHARLES ZIES. been purposely constructed to accomplish that 1o object. VitneSsem Having thus described my invention, what J. MASON GosZLER, I claim s WM. B. NELSON, 

